You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONJohn F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.
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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel; we don’t even know where the tunnel is.
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